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The Coen Brothers' Fargo (Cambridge Film Handbooks) (Paperback)

~ William G. Luhr (Editor) "Fargo (1996) is Ethan and Joel Coens' most commercially and critically successful film (Fig. 1)..." (more)
Key Phrases: blood simple, kidnap plot, triple homicide, Barton Fink, New York, Ethan Coen (more...)

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"...a useful introduction to the critical discourse penned in the years since the film's premier." Jarrod Waetjen, Gibbs College, American Book Review

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"...a useful introduction to the critical discourse penned in the years since the film's premier." Jarrod Waetjen, Gibbs College, American Book Review

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Product Details

Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; illustrated edition edition (October 13, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521005019
ISBN-13: 978-0521005012
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces

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Amazon.com Sales Rank: #740,386 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Fargo (1996) is Ethan and Joel Coens' most commercially and critically successful film (Fig. 1). Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
blood simple, kidnap plot, triple homicide, wood chipper, film noir

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Barton Fink, New York, Ethan Coen, Paul Bunyan, The Hudsucker Proxy, Miller's Crossing, Raising Arizona, Jerry Lundegaard, Steve Buscemi, North Dakota, Peter Stormare, Gaear Grimsrud, Los Angeles, The Big Lebowski, Harve Presnell, Joel Coen, Marge Gunderson, Mike Yanagita, Twin Cities, Shep Proudfoot, The Man Who Wasn't There, Wade Gustafson, Carter Burwell, John Carroll Lynch, Raymond Chandler

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great companion to the film "Fargo" by the Coen brothers., February 18, 2010

By	Russell Clay "Father Christmas" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Coen Brothers' Fargo (Kindle Edition)

This is a great companion to the film "Fargo" by the Coen brothers. Although the story is virtually the same in both formats, reading the written word is not the same as viewing a video. When you can have both, the enjoyment of the story is greater than the sum of its formats.

The biggest complaint I have with all the Kindle books I've purchased so far (since December 2009) is that the line breaks and other document formatting is just plain goofy. If anyone picked up a physical copy of a book and saw similar errors, there is very little chance the person would buy the book. They would think it was defective in printing. But with Kindle books, you pay a slightly lower price and "takes yer chances." Very sad. It's as if someone just cut the pages out of a physical copy and fed them through a scanner, creating a PDF, without bothering to check the output.

This isn't supposed to be a review of the Kindle, however, so I'll leave my comments about that and say that "Fargo" is one of the Coen brothers' best movies, full of both nuance and suspense. The pathetic character played by William Macy comes across in the written form as an even sadder, more desperate man. The description and actions of the two bad guys are all the more ominous and gruesome when read word for word. When I watch "Fargo" on TV and then pick up the Kindle, the experience is fantastic, as if I were immersed in the lives of the characters on a deeper level than could be possible by just watching or reading the story.

I recommend "Fargo" in the Kindle edition for anyone who enjoys the Coen brothers' work, anyone who likes to see how a written plot or screenplay is translated into visual form, and, alas, for anyone who has the patience to put up with the cheap production that is the biggest flaw in all the Kindle e-books I have purchased.

Four stars for an incredible story, but I must withhold the fifth star for the crummy formatting of the book; for the cost of the Kindle version of "Fargo" I should get more than weird line breaks and words running together like snow in Dakota.

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